Question three. The way a play is staged can have a significant effect on the meanings expressed by the audience. To what extent did the choices in staging No Sugar contribute to the meanings you attributed regarding ethnicity and identity? The post-colonialist play No Sugar, written by playwright Jack Davis in 1986, invites audiences to criticize (and ultimately condemn) the ethnocentrism and ideologies supported by white Anglo-Saxon Christians in the early 1930s Western Australia. The show follows the Millimurra family, of the Nyoongah people, as they experience racism in the small town of Northam and are forcibly relocated to the Moore River Native Settlement by non-Indigenous officials. The playwright invites the audience to question the central ideologies supported by these two conflicting ethnic groups through the use of theatrical performance devices (and staging conventions). Davis conveys representations of two opposing ethnicities in the play No Sugar through dichotomies and binary oppositions conveyed by theater devices. Binary oppositions reflect the dominant ideologies of a society and encourage audiences to consider the treatment of Aboriginal Australians by non-Indigenous Australians in the play No Sugar. The theatrical conventions used in the show invite the audience to make meanings regarding the ethnicity and identity of indigenous and non-indigenous groups. Davis calls on the public to value the importance placed on participation and community by the Nyoongah people, while condemning the false spectacles favored by non-Indigenous people. -Indigenous Australians. The No Sugar stage is designed for a diffuse setting, to represent an attempt to integrate the audience with... middle of paper... the inability of indigenous peoples to understand their own mistakes regarding the treatment of Aboriginal people. people.Davis uses theatrical devices to invite the reader to criticize and support certain aspects of the ethnicity and identity of non-Indigenous and indigenous peoples in the play No Sugar. The postcolonial game features dichotomies between each group's markers of ethnicity and the values ​​each group holds. The show invites the audience to condemn ethnocentrism and the refusal of non-indigenous people to integrate with indigenous people. This suggests that non-indigenous people are unwilling to diversify and accept the Nyoongah into their (dominant) cultural identity, despite the Nyoongah characters' attempts to integrate with them. It is therefore in these ways that the staging choices contributed to giving meanings regarding ethnicity and identity.